Hello JeeBee, You may not need to do anything with alsa other than re-initialize it. It should automatically access the new modules. Let's see if things are set up properly.. Do a $ ls /lib/modules/ You should see the new kernel listed there if you were successful with "make modules_install" during the rebuild process. If it is, do ls /lib/modules/[your new kernel]/kernel/sound/core and post the results. Have you tried /sbin/service alsasound stop/start again? After that it would be good to see the /root/sysound.log file resultsing from system-config-soundcard. -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=103793&topic_id=24243&forum=10#forumpost103793